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...construction of B-1 bombers, he has yet to announce he will halt the program inherited from Gerald Ford's budget. He has also abandoned the notion, barring a national emergency, of stand-by wage-and-price controls. On other issues, Carter has fudged his position. The vow to cut $5 billion to $7 billion in waste from the defense budget will not be fulfilled until next year at the earliest, he now says, although he appeared to imply during the campaign that he could do it right away...
...chairman promised to try to rebuild the G.O.P. from "the bottom up" -a vow often made, and forgotten, by Republicans-as the party starts to get ready for the 1978 elections...
Carter was equally politic with the Republicans. He asked them to recommend candidates for Cabinet posts. He also impressed the Republicans with his vow that he would balance the budget...
...immediate election of a constituent assembly. Others concede that the reform bill is a step toward the kind of free society demanded by the Democratic Coordination, an umbrella group that includes Communists, Socialists and left-wing Christian Democrats. But the organized left has boxed itself in with a public vow not to cooperate with any Spanish regime until the Communist Party is made legal -something that the rightists will probably be able to block, perhaps until the elections for the legislature. Frustrated by criticism from both sides, Suárez complains that "the left does not stop fighting a past...
...Public Health Service's bright new slogan. Yet as the nation's highly touted program against swine flu began last week, most Americans who wanted to take the slogan's advice stood only to get a cold shoulder. Despite the Ford Administration's original vow to vaccinate 200 million Americans against the dread virus-a form of which possibly caused some half-million deaths in the U.S. alone during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic-only a few health centers round the country were ready to give the shots. Indeed, federal distribution of the vaccine...